Gemma 3 12b specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Gemma 3 12b
Author: Google

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Mar 13, 2025

Provider: Google
Release date: Mar 13, 2025; Pricing
Parameters: 12.2B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text, Image to Text; OpenRouter
License: Gemma; Hugging Face
Context window: 131K tokens; Pricing
Pricing: $0.04 in / $0.12 out per 1M tokens; All prices
Hosting: 4 priced API routes · AWS Bedrock (10 regions) · OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face; Pricing Regions
Hardware: Estimate: about 24 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 12 GB at 8-bit, about 6.1 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
47	BFCLAgents and tools · stale since 2026-04-12 · as “Gemma-3-12b-it (Prompt)”	Agents and tools	30.4%	81

Versions and release history

8 versions in this line since Jul 13, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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